A collection of ficlets and Drabbles tied together with a main plot. Featuring Sakura as a witch of life who bargained far too much and tried too hard. Also she eats slugs. And Gaaras is apparently the cutest monster baby according to Seltap on Tumblr.
(As always written on phone with little editing)
The barrels had been rolled out and the windows shuttered long before the rain reached down between the tree canopy. All that work reaped the reward of Sakura being able to sit under the overhang of her porch and watch the storm roll overhead. The thunder was of the calm summer sort and barely shook the house with each deep rumble and she couldn't even see the lightning flash above her. These types of storms were always her favorite and the best time to enjoy little pleasures in life. Specifically, a good roll of tobacco that someone has given as payment not too long ago.
The smoke from her pipe wafted out and mixed in with the heavy rain and the scent of woods and fungi surrounded her. There was certainly something mixed in with the tobacco; perhaps a few leaves from a plant fed blood? Once long ago she had seen such a plant and found it amazing how the roots sucked a wound dry. Now she could taste blood on her tongue and it left a pleasant twinge behind with each pull.
A river had started to cut into the loose loam of her yard and she could see the pale backs of slugs as the water washed over them. For some time she watched the slugs squirm ever deeper into the soil as the drug loosened her joints and made her mind hazy. Definitely not just tobacoo she had been given and perhaps she really shouldn't be finishing the bowl. Then again, Sakura found it difficult to care all that much considering how tired she was.
There was nothing one could gain by attacking her anyways nor did she hold anything of value to most people. Let a stranger come in this storm.
"Unless it's a scorpion", she said to the slugs, "I never enjoy those legs crawling over me."
A laugh at her own joke and another deep pull as the rain increased and wet her outstretched legs.